Quotes About Destructive Ambition

#1. Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions
in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
to follow.

Kamila Shamsie

#2. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.

Heather Lyons

#3. I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.

Roger Ailes

#4. Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#5. According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.

Dharma Singh Khalsa

#6. Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow above ground like kale, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower as opposed to those that store carbohydrate in the form of starch like potatoes and beets.

David Perlmutter

#7. Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sara Blakely

#8. If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

Rajneesh

#9. What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

John Greenleaf Whittier

#10. The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

Kenneth Oppel